Pages

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Mid Week Match-Up: Best 'Merican From Model Year 1970

It's Wednesday, so that means it's time for another edition of Daily Turismo's better than trying to circumcise a rottweiler while it is eating game also known as Mid Week Match-Up! 1970 was a pivotal year in for automobiles, and for many it marks the start of the malaise era...but if you are careful you can find some of the baddest rides that ever came out of Detroit. Today's search is for the best American 1970 car around for less than $15k. Bonus points if it has Brougham in the name.

My first pick is this 1970 Chevelle SS tribute, an example of one of the cooler cars to be sold in 1970. It isn't a real SS, but it also doesn't come with the $40k pricetag associated with the real deal. It is all muscle and might handle horribly, but who cares.

The above Chevelle might have some insane reserve, so I'm also going to plug this 1970.5 Ford Falcon sedan offered for $3,000 in Mansfield, OH via craigslist. The 1970 US market Ford Falcon is a bit of an oddball - it was only sold
for 8 months and is often called the 1970 1/2 Falcon due to its limited
production. It was no longer based on the compact platform shared with the Mustang and instead was a low spec version of the Fairlane.

What American car would you buy from the 1970 model year? Comments below.

Wow, this would be heaven for a small formula car. In fact, when your wife finally leaves you and you decide to become a full-time over the hill, washed up Formula Ford driver, you could just live in this thing and follow the sun from race to race. Oops, that's just the cabin fever talking.....

I've owned a 70 Chevelle SS and a Challenger 440 and both were pretty epic.My Favorite 1970 would have to be a Mangusta but I don't think it counts.How about.......[img]http://images.classiccars.com/classifieds/73164_520111_1970_Plymouth_Road%2bRunner%2bSuperbird.jpg[/img]

70 Monte Carlo, more done up and a bit too red for my usual taste, but I wouldn't kick it out of my garage (if I had a garage) for eating crackers (if cars ate crackers) - on San Francisco CL for $15,500

No love for the '70 maverick or '70 comet? The early ones have nice small bumpers, they are light and the Maverick grabber and Comet GT came with optional 302ci V8's, nice high back buckets , spoilers and hood scoops. I've had one of each and they were a blast. I have seen nice ones lately for $6k -$14k depending on what somebody thinks they are worth. And no... I haven't been drinking. I like them sober!

Spent some time with a '71 Comet w/ 302. Great cars that wake up when you lose the 2v carb and choky exhaust system that would bottleneck even a base D15 dpfi civic motor. About 15 years ago, they were cheap and plentiful.

@mountain man - that was exactly the car I was going to try to post. The early Maverick has aged very well from a design standpoint, and you can just open most Mustang performance catalogs to turn one into a very satisfying (and attractive) road warrior.

My automotive tastes are too large to be contained in a single vehicle, so I found three whose total combined price would come in under the cap: the 1970 Chrysler Imperial, because it outweighs an Expedition and is my favorite of the Imperials (and 'cuz my grandfather worked on the line!); the Ford Country Squire because I loved Ford's hidden-headlight station wagons plus it's cheaper than a new Apple laptop, and lastly a hilariously overpriced Camaro because if Daryl from "The Walking Dead" was a car, this is what he'd look like. Seriously, if this car could talk, it would say, "WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? I JUST KILLED A DUDE FOR LOOKING AT ME."

I always read him as straight, personally. I think that's been indirectly confirmed by the writers as well.

On a DT note, I recall at one point in the first season, when they were moving through the traffic jam, there was either a first-gen Bronco or an International Scout in the background, and I wanted to yell at the TV, "You guys just passed a perfectly good trade-up!!"

I always read him as straight, personally. I think that's been indirectly confirmed by the writers as well.

On a DT note, I recall at one point in the first season, when they were moving through the traffic jam, there was either a first-gen Bronco or an International Scout in the background, and I wanted to yell at the TV, "You guys just passed a perfectly good trade-up!!"

I agree, but they clearly like mixing things up for the show versus the books. We shall see! I don't really care, I just love everything about that show. Word is that there's going to be a prequel. If the writing is as good, I'm all over it.

Commenting Commandments:I. Thou Shalt Not write anything your mother would not appreciate reading. II. Thou Shalt Not post as anonymous unless you are posting from mobile and have technical issues. Use name/url when posting and pick something Urazmus B Jokin, Ben Dover. Sir Edmund Hillary Clint Eastwood...it don't matter. Just pick a nom de plume and stick with it.III. Honor thy own links by using <a href ="http://www.linkgoeshere"> description of your link </a>IV. Remember the formatting tricks <i>italics</i> and <b> bold </b>V. Thou Shalt Not commit spam.VI. To embed images: use [image src="http://www.IMAGE_LINK.com" width="400px"/]. Limit images to no wider than 400 pixels in width. No more than one image per comment please.

Amazon

Contributors

Facebook & Twitter

Find Cars On Ebay

Matched Ads

Trackers

All rights reserved. (C) Daily Turismo. Disclaimer: No guarantees, claims or contracts are implied or assumed by the dailyturismo for items advertised at this site or referred to from this site. Buyer beware: This site assumes no responsibility for any of the items for sale or referenced and does not assume any responsibility for any accuracy in the postings.